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Wendell P. Dabney’s 1926 book “Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens” is an invaluable resource of the city’s Black history.

Dabney was the editor and publisher of The Union, a weekly Black newspaper, with immense knowledge of Cincinnati’s Black communities.

He saw a need to record that history and compiled church notes, recollections and traditions into a book “setting forth the history and achievements of the colored people of Cincinnati,” Dabney wrote…

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